Help!! I have 4 Rhode Island Reds that are approximately 7 months old. They free-ranged until 3 weeks ago when they got out and visited the next door neighbor’s chickens. The neighbor put them in his coop with bantams and a young rooster. Their diet changed from my layer pellets to table scraps. A week passed before I figured out where they were and brought them home.
They now live in a completely enclosed coop and run (an enclosed carport) and I do not let them free range. They are drinking water all of the time and are constantly running along the chicken netting from one end of the coop to the other, and grabbing on to the netting at times. They have also become aggressive when I enter the run. Egg production has almost completely stopped and eggs are getting lighter in color.
I do not know what to do. Are they sick?
They now live in a completely enclosed coop and run (an enclosed carport) and I do not let them free range. They are drinking water all of the time and are constantly running along the chicken netting from one end of the coop to the other, and grabbing on to the netting at times. They have also become aggressive when I enter the run. Egg production has almost completely stopped and eggs are getting lighter in color.
I do not know what to do. Are they sick?